Turn Left At Abu Ghraib
We all have words or phrases that raise those little hairs on the back of the neck. The one that has bothered me–ever since I first heard it–is “on the ground” (as in, “…the situation on the ground…“; or, “…if you talk to the people on the ground…“). I...
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An i For An i
Here’s an image I found on the Turbanhead blog. This site is great because it’s a mix of the political and the personal, and it gives me the chance to look at the world through the eyes of people who aren’t straight and white and of European descent. Some...
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Cartoon Caricatures Against The War
It turns out John Kerry was the subject of a few Doonesbury strips in 1971. On one hand, they tend to reinforce his tendency toward self aggrandizement. In light of the passage of time, however, he seems to also come off as consistent with his ideals. Click here to...
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The Cambone’s Connected To The Scandalbone
What’s incredible is not that the Pentagon is denying any high level role in the intelligence scandal, it’s that their whole strategy has become so transparent. Of course, Sy Hersh has been the lead flack catcher. (Sadly, the NPR profile I heard on him today seemed to go out...
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Washington Post’s Pioneering Look At The Bush Pioneers (As Well As Other Maps Of The Big-Boy Networks)
It looks like the Washington Post is trying to stake a claim as a leader in multimedia news and investigative graphics. In this interactive diagram, titled Spheres Of Influence, the viewer is able to track major Bush contributors, as well as identify the time and sphere of Bush’s life...
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The Chain Gang Is On The Map
As the Pentagon torture scandal unfolds, UggaBugga’s latest “visual aid” diagrams Sy Hersh’s 5/17 New Yorker piece, Chain of Command. If you want a better idea of who did what when, the picture is there. (For the full diagram, click here).
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Disney Gasses Miramax
A few years ago, an art exhibition entitled “Filter” used the theme of masks to focus on media and corporate control. In the essay that accompanied the show, there is a line that says: “The filter is the act of self-censorship by the media that eliminates any message detrimental...
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What’s incredible is not that the Pentagon is denying any high level role in the intelligence scandal, it’s that their whole strategy has become so transparent. Of course, Sy Hersh has been the lead flack catcher. (Sadly, the NPR profile I heard on him today seemed to go out...
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Unmeet The Press
It wasn’t that long ago that the Bush handlers owned the news. You could frame Bush in front of Mt. Rushmore, have him fly onto aircraft carriers, wave off any reality with just the promise of resolve. In another excellent piece this weekend in the NYTimes, Frank Rich discusses...
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Breaking The Marriage Barrier
Although she’s 23 and still slightly awed by her acceptance into the fraternity of editorial cartoonists, I really like the work of Mikhaela Reid. Because gay marriage becomes officially legal today in Massachusetts, and because her location (and her gig at the Boston Phoenix) puts her at “ground zero”...
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“Type A” And The Gang Ruining America
If you did a psychosociological analysis of what’s wrong with the Bush Administration, some factors that would come up would include rigid obsessiveness, a corporate (versus democratic) approach to governance, and a primitive male ideal of dominance and physical force. Another way to look at the Bush team, both...
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Monty Python Sends Its Best To The F.C.C.
I understand my agenda is primarily visual, but I couldn’t help extending into the aural realm… at least this one time. Eric Idle has a little musical number on the Monty Python website entitled “The FCC Song.” It’s as simultaneously sweet and nasty as Python usually is (although I...
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But Would Rumsfeld Be Going Down If There Had Been No Pictures?
Apparently, Sy Hersh’s latest bombshell shows Rumsfeld approved coercive treatment of Iraqi prisoners. However, would it have made any difference if pictures had never come out? In a twisted bit of logic, Rumsfeld made the point in his own defense before the Armed Services Committee meeting last week, intimating...
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Free Speech
When Smoking Gun released this “home movie” clip of President Bush at a wedding party in 1992, the story line had to do with alcohol. Of course, the fact that Bush teases his friends for not drinking, and looks like he’s having a beer, is noteworthy because of the...
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I’ll See Your ‘Prisoner On A Leash,’ And I’ll Raise You ‘One Beheading’
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I’ve been taken with Newsmap, a utility that provides a pictorial snapshot of the Google News aggregator, As you can imagine, the map has been dominated by stories about the Abu Ghraib pictures for a week now. With the Berg...
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One Man’s Idea Of A Good Time
So Limbaugh thinks the torture of Iraqi prisoners was just a few people “having a good time?” Here is the Media Matters tv spot calling the so-called commentator on the carpet. It’s clean and to the point. Windows media format MPEG-4 (higher quality) (This image is the work of...
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Dick, We’re Not In Analog, Anymore!
In a wonderful opinion piece in Monday’s NYTimes entitled “Tourists and Torturers,” Luc Sante discusses the meaning of the Abu Ghraib photographs. In contrast to the conventional buzz comparing them to My Lai, Sante sees them as trophy shots, more comparable to pictures of early 20th century lynchings. (By...
Continue ReadingDick, We’re Not In Analog, Anymore!
In a wonderful opinion piece in Monday’s NYTimes entitled “Tourists and Torturers,” Luc Sante discusses the meaning of the Abu Ghraib photographs. In contrast to the conventional buzz comparing them to My Lai, Sante sees them as trophy shots, more comparable to pictures of early 20th century lynchings. (By...
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